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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme A Calendar!


I can't imagine that my private bank never give its operations staff a calendar for the new year 2007.
Why only the marketing teams are given the calendars? (and even diary books!!!)
Are we supposed to buy the calendar ourselves?
How to make payment to the clients without a calendar?
Are we supposed to go into the system and check if there is any holiday for each country everyday?
Maybe yes, we are paid to do so.
On the first day I joined the bank, I told myself proudly, "Wah, I've joined a very big bank. Must appreciate and work hard hard for the bank."
After two years, I'm asking myself why my bank treats us this way and seems that it's getting worse. Oversea trip is cancelled, tightened control on stationery request, asia & europe securities teams are sharing the same photocopy machine, no free lunch for team meeting and lesser bonus this year? Sigh....
Are we the "disposable" one?
I understand that operations do not bring customers and profits to the bank like the marketing teams do. But it doesn't mean that we should be treated differently. I still remember the "Five Points Plan" created by the management - the members of the bank have to share the same responsibility bla bla bla.....but why we cannot share the calendars?
Today we were so pity that we asked our friends from other banks if they have any extra calendars. The response we received from them is, "What? xxx bank never give calendar meh?"
Some of them are so kind that they are willing to pouch the extra calendars to us. Really shameful and sianzzz.....

## As it is the first business day of the new year, a new staff has joined the Trades Settlement team and surprisingly it's a female with not bad looking. The guys are getting excited....a good refreshing start for 2007 (although no calendar is given)
Written at 12:20 AM by Kent.
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